[orange]Well. That worked about as well as I could hope.[/color] Time to channel first contact.
With my extremely human hands, poke at the ground and do:
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also draw a rough symbol of stick figures standing next to each other.
then step back and motion at the ground. If guards aren't already standing down, have them stand down. This isn't a time to appear hostile.
They look at your drawings. It's only now that you realize that, to them, the plus and equals symbols have no meaning. They could be reading the entire arrangement of symbols as one large symbol, or any combination.
The stick figures they seem to recognize but they don't really do anything about it. Admittedly, if a stranger just drew stick figures in the dirt in front of you, how would you respond?
Launch the infected test rooms back to -49, -49, -49 immediately and with extreme prejudice. Order all Ships back, and all weapons fired at the halo'd blackness.
Send probes immediately to any universe that contains our people and order them to return, except for permanently established colonies (This is primarily to get the player characters here). Begin immediate evacuation of Cavernverse for relocation to another universe.they have an eue apparently)
During any time that can be spared, send probes to OrgyVerse, well outside the range of the civilization that is there, looking for suitable planets to colonize. If we have any autocolonies prepared, send one to the first viable planet we find.
Edit: Lyra is planning to cross to Heph this urn in order to test origin tech in orgyverse. Provided that we have a reasonable timetable to do so, I wold like to outfit her with whatever amps she wants and synthflesh (she has a Haebi Implant, so if that affects amps or synthflesh she can decide which to go with), and send her to the location of the functioning gravity probe in Orgyverse (the probe I sent last time that operated at normal capacity). I intend to send her in the largest ship we can cross over, with a crew compliment of humans and sods. She is to test her abilities over there and report back. I expect this to take a couple turns oevrall, but with the current situation, I am not sure we have time , so I wanted to get the plan laid out so you could give me a feel for whether that will work or not.
What is the rate of expansion on that stuff? It expanded across space pretty quickly to infect other test rooms and head noticeably toward a planet. How large has it gotten so far? How long will we have to evacuate heph, should the need arise?
We've got another breach!
You teleport the entire room back where it came from, but the severed piece of the thing continues to grow and move.
Done.
Done.
Thats a bit too much for right now.
The thing is moving at relativistic speeds, Minutes till it reaches the near by planet. If it moved towards heph right now, there would be two hours till it reached it. It's quite large; size of a small moon in total mass so far.
Somewhere, deep within the bowels of a massive warship, a cyborg brain mentally sighs.
1.Send a message to Dester saying not to waste time evacuating people from other universes. They're better off there, as if we can't stop this then most people in this system will die. Especially don't evacuate the cavernverse, as they have a EUE. Don't waste time fighting with Dester about this, though.
2.Hephaestus is about one AU from its star. The apocalypse lab was about fifty AU away. We ended up spacing all the testing rooms out, at unspecified locations around the system. I won't ask for actual locations and distances, since they're useless anyway, but assuming the anomaly continues spreading at the same speed, how many turns until it contacts the planet it is heading for?
3.Same as above, but assuming immediately after it contacts that planet, it starts heading for Heph, how many turns until it reaches Heph?
4.What planet is it heading for? There's eleven, though most of them are just glorified asteroids. Is there anything valuable on that planet, like the EUE, or is it just worthless mass?
5.Ask the Doctor if the EUE might function if it is rapidly disassembled and moved somewhere else. Emphasis on might--It's worthless anyway if a god eats it. Quickly have someone competent with portals set up a portal from the EUE's area to somewhere safer--maybe Heph, maybe the Sword--and get ready to deconstruct the thing and move it. Don't send the order to do so until there's a risk of the anomaly reaching the EUE if we don't.
6.Rig one of our largest, fastest ships up with lots of automanips, and lots of spare nukes. Send it towards the anomaly, but preferably keep it a safe distance away. Make sure it's ready to overload on my command.
7.Ask The Doc if overloading the above contraption and ramming it into the new anomaly is conceivably not a terrible idea.
8.Have whatever warship Saint's on fly away from the new anomaly, away from Heph, and towards a rendezvous point with a ship that has a portal generator and someone capable of using it. Invite any M26 members who are uninterested in death, but pick them up with a different warship. No reason to put multiple eggs in one basket.
9.Prepare to send a message to the leadership of M27, shown below. Only send it if the anomaly does not respond positively to nuclear weapons (by dying).
Unforseen consequences have arisen during the course of M26's universe exploration efforts. An entity similar to The Lurker in the Angles has appeared, and standard emergency containment protocols have failed to significantly impede it. A full scale emergency evacuation of the Hephaestus system is currently being considered, and if it is enacted, it is very likely many of the refugees will be left to their fate on Hephaestus.
I recommend you temporarily pause all evacuation efforts, as the flow of refugees may soon reverse.
((Edit: Nun, you didn't CC Saint, but he would point out that rescuing the lycanthropes is a waste of time and effort. Even if we can't rescue either EUE which exists in this universe, we have a third one in the cavernverse, which can send a probe to the lycanthrope 'verse and then into our 'verse, carrying with it the horrible disease.))
Done
Few minutes, so next turn.
two hours, so several, depending on what you do in them.
The planet is one of the outer ones, it contains nothing of value to you.
The engine can't be rapidly disassembled, at least not entirely. Its kind of like asking if you can disassemble a hydroelectric dam. We could get some of the more valuable or hard to make parts out, but the majority of it isn't going anywhere.
Ok.
Doing that is gonna draw the attention of the lurker in a big way. Maybe they'll cancel. Probably not.
Done
Done
((Ah, thanks. I tend to have terrible judgement, so I appreciate the veto.))
Escape on one of Saint's warships.
Where is the Doctor's lab? If it's somewhere safe, that's my destination.
If Heph NPCs make it onto the ship, attempt to reproduce Freeman's results by telepathically extracting names or other knowledge from crewmates using charisma. Try 100 times. What is the rate of success, as verified by the target NPCs?
For reference, here is where Freeman used telepathy:
"Ugh, this is a mess, why should I bother?"
Take cover from ensuing stupid fucking friendly fire laser fight.
March on over to the rioting crowd and start beating thieves and troublemakers senseless while using Charisma to still appear heroic.
While doing so, speech roll this rant at Auron's Id. Try to demoralize it so it stops committing mass-murder.
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You walk over the the nearest group of people that have somehow avoided auron's molten gold bombardment. You stand in front of them and loudly berate them with your hands on your hips. You call them all by their entire name, first and last. You tell them you're not angry, you're just disappointed. And then you tell them to sit down and think about what they've done.
You get a group of about 150 people to just sit down on the beach near the slums and feel bad about themselves.
Done
It's on heph, currently.
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Order all three of the testing rooms to self destruct. Probably futile, but there's not much else for me to do. Escape on one of Saint's ships.
Futile it is
((We dont have an EUE in Caveverse. The Vr test runs didnt go well, plus the universe was causing gravity cancer, so all colonists where evac'd and quarantined on Heph... I'm all for sending the testing chambers to a lurkerverse))
Was my action of sending my testing chamber to its universe permanently, missed? Or did the new Universally Transmitted Infection make my action not important?,
Preempted by our new reality killing foe. This sort of thing is becoming more common around here.
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